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HealtHy Habits
50 Issue 549. April 2013
Foods
ArTHrITIC PAIN CAN HAVE AN
IMMENSE IMPACT ON YOur LIFE.
oLWeN ANDeRSoN OFFErS SOME
SIMPLE DIETArY ADJuSTMENTS
TO HELP YOu MOVE BETTEr AND
ENJOY LIFE MOrE.
ArTHrITISto
AVoID
oSTeoARThRITIS, rheumatoid
arthritis, gouty arthritis, or any sort of
chronic joint inflammation, is at the
ver y least a painful nuisance, and at
the worst completely debilitating, with
an immense negative impact on your
quality of life. But what you choose to
eat can make a positive difference in
the amount of pain you’ll experience.
Rheumatoid arthritis:
When it’s easier to just
keep moving
When you get out of bed in the
morning and your feet hit the ground,
how do your joints feel? Stiff? Painful?
Do they feel better after you’ve been
moving around for a while?
Joints with rheumatoid arthritis
feel better the more you move them
and get stiff after a period of being
still. That’s because your immune
system has mistaken your joint cells
for invaders, so it attacks them. A
focused immune attack like this
produces lots of toxic waste materials
that cause pain when they come into
contact with nerve endings. When
your limbs have been still for a while,
like overnight, the circulation to your
joints (which would have removed a
lot of the inflammatory material) has
pooled in the joint. So in the morning
your joints are likely to feel at best stiff
and at worst extremely painful until
you’ve been moving for a while and